Sharon Short is the author of the coming-of-age "book club" novel My One Square Inch of Alaska (Penguin Plume), two mystery series--Josie Toadfern (Avon Books) and Patricia Delaney (Fawcett Books)--and the humorous essay collection Sanity Check: The Dog Ate My Lipstick and My Houseplants Have Fleas. Additionally, Sharon is the Executive Director of the Antioch Writers' Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio and is Literary Life columnist for the Dayton Daily News. Her work has won an Ohio Arts Council individual artist's grant as well as other honors. She has taught creative writing at Antioch University Midwest and has experience as a creative writing competition judge, including as a preliminary reader for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2013, 2014), a finalist judge for the Erma Bombeck Creative Writing Competition (2014), and a judge for the Mystery Writers' of America Edgars Awards (2006 and 2007). Sharon has a thing for pie, shoes, indie films, the television show Project Runway, and occasional hikes. You might be surprised to learn that Sharon once flew a private airplane... even though she doesn't have a pilot's license. You can find out more at www.sharonshort.com 0r any of these links: